# From the Onion: Bush: "Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 1, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-onion-bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperity-is-finally-over/583922 "2011-06-01T02:47:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-onion-bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperity-is-finally-over/583922/1 "2011-06-01T02:47:27Z")
Keep in mind this is pre-9/11, right when George W Bush was inagurated for the first time. [http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-pros,464/](http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-pros,464/) ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-onion-bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperity-is-finally-over/583922/2 "2011-06-01T03:09:13Z")
Um. So? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-onion-bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperity-is-finally-over/583922/3 "2011-06-01T03:21:02Z")
That’s a famous Onion piece, and yes, he proved them right. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-onion-bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperity-is-finally-over/583922/4 "2011-06-01T03:32:53Z")
Yea, your at least a half-decade late in pointing at that article as prescient, **Qin**. But it is a funny article. Well not funny exactly. Depressing. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-onion-bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperity-is-finally-over/583922/5 "2011-06-01T03:43:54Z")
Yes, believe it or not, some of use actually voted against Bush back in 2000 because we thought his obvious incapacity for the job and the toxic ideology of the Republican Party would lead the country to ruin! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-onion-bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperity-is-finally-over/583922/6 "2011-06-01T05:43:52Z")
Yup, we predicted the wars, the runaway spending, economic crisis, the collapse of environmental regulation, the loss of civil liberties. The torture was a surprise though. Didn’t see that one coming. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-onion-bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperity-is-finally-over/583922/7 "2011-06-01T08:38:10Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The torture was a surprise though. Didn’t see that one coming. No-one expects the [del]Spanish[/del] American Inquisition. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-onion-bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperity-is-finally-over/583922/8 "2011-06-01T10:36:46Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Yup, we predicted the wars, the runaway spending, economic crisis, the collapse of environmental regulation, the loss of civil liberties. > > The torture was a surprise though. Didn’t see that one coming. Don’t forget the human-animal hybrids.